Waiting to fly the dual-talent of Danielle Antonio
An artist who started in crunchy Boulder and has migrated back to the more appropriate nightclub climes of New York City, Danielle Antonio brings a retro sound to the Women of Substance music movement...
View ArticleSYN(A)PSE connects with Auditory Complex
SYN(A)PSE connects its listeners to a violently cathartic and commiserate psychic state through driving chord progressions and affrontations of monolithic noise. The Canadian metal alternative battery...
View ArticleZinEgo’s “13″ Desires That The Bold Meet The Bitter
The ability to operate the tool(s) used in any artistic or creative endeavor doesn’t necessarily vocate one to be an artist or creator. The relevance of creativity, the point to create, is to generate...
View ArticleThe Tilt’s “EP” – A Bluesy Gem in the Southern California Sand
As EP bayou-slides into its backswamp politico anti-rig anthem in the album’s opening song “Oil Man”, one enters into The Tilt’s world of confident musical competence. The Tilt is a San Diego-based...
View ArticleLyricism Shines Throughout The Words’ Debut Album Truth & Faith
The title track of Truth & Faith, the debut album by The Words, exemplifies the album’s generally uplifting, empathetic, and lightly commiserate character. The band uses the varied vehicles of ska,...
View ArticleEclectic Melancholia Held Sacred in Matthew Solberg’s Self-Titled EP
Matthew Solberg’s blog page, matthewsolberg.com, reads like New Testament quotations, ending each Charlie Brownish account of the so-so happenings of his musical career with “- Matthew”. Solberg’s...
View ArticleLovestruck Robot Explodes and Intrigues with “I Wanna Be In A Band”
Adela, the defiant daughter in Federico Garcia Lorca’s play The House of Bernarda Alba, illustrates the essence of focused lust in her line, “Gazing into his eyes I feel as if I’m slowly drinking his...
View ArticleOne Long Skid by Jon Clark: friendly, profound, and adorably clunky
Jon Clark states, “One Long Skid is a collection of songs about the delicate balance in life, staying upright, falling down, getting up, or staying down.” His album is adorably clunky, like a more...
View ArticleThe Totems’“Going Nowhere” Splinters Pretensions with Fertile Filth
Drums play at the speed of hummingbird wings under a guitar and bass that combine in a synchronized growl, synthesizing into a bolting soundstreak upon which jaggedly bobs a Cockney slur. The listener...
View ArticleQuake and bow down before the sanctimonious allure of Love in the Circus
Love in the Circus is the multihued child of insane parents who love, hate, scream at, and laugh with each other while magnetizing two times a day in a fruity, frenzied union. Such offspring is, though...
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